Neurological Correlates

The Neuroscience of Dysfunctional Behavior - Mostly Psychopaths, Narcissists, Obesity and Addiction

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Psychopaths, platypus, mammalian infants - REM sleep but no dreams may indicate white matter disconnect.

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Last January I wondered if psychopaths dream — and noted that the only mammal (or maybe one of the few mammals) that doesn’t dream is a platypus. This post follows up, with a discussion of the “Platypus Defense” as part of the murder trial of Hans Reiser. Plus platypus genome and microRNA and transposable elements [...]

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Tags: Brain anatomy · Conditions or Diagnosis · Narcissism · Nature vs. nurture · Personality disorder · Platypus · Sleep or Circadian clock · genetics · lawsuit · psychopath · white matter